Rex Ingram

Acting

Rex Ingram

Born 1895-10-20 Cairo, Illinois, USA 38 films

Rex Ingram (October 20, 1895 – September 19, 1969) was an American stage, film, and television actor. Ingram graduated from the Northwestern University medical school in 1919 and was the first African-American man to receive a Phi Beta Kappa key from there. He went to Hollywood as a young man where he was literally discovered on a street corner by the casting director for Tarzan of the Apes (1918), starring Elmo Lincoln. He made his (uncredited) screen de…

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Filmography

38 films
Hurry Sundown poster

A ruthless Southern opportunist tries to buy his cousin's land, and when thwarted, brings several t…

Hurry Sundown

★ 6.4 1967

Elmer Gantry poster

A charismatic charlatan begins a business — and eventually romantic — relationship with a roadside…

Elmer Gantry

★ 7.3 1960

Watusi poster

Following WWI, fortune hunter Allen Quartermain's son Harry travels to Africa to search for King So…

Watusi

★ 5.9 1959

Escort West poster

Seeking a new place to call home, former Confederate soldier Ben Lassiter (Victor Mature) and his d…

Escort West

★ 6.2 1959

Anna Lucasta poster

The estranged family of a reformed prostitute calls her back home to get her married to an affluent…

Anna Lucasta

★ 6.2 1958